The Dillon tribune., 1887-11-25
MONTANA CONDENSED.
From Our Territorial Exchanges. and,
Other Sources.

Billings has organized strong militia
company.
The output OF the Jay Gould mine for
October was $4,000.
The stock raiscrs Of Southern Montana
are better fixed for winter than usual
1t is expected that the Bitter Root Rail.
road will reach Corvallis by January 1st.
The Northern Pacific is using Stag as a
protection against land slides in Eastern
Montana.
The saw mill of W. II. Pic,cc, about
three miles from Boulder. was burned last
week. Loss, $500.
l.. B. Lyman has presented the Montana
Historical Society with a rude Indian scalp.
ing knife found ON the plains near the Te.
ton River.
Louis P!anta an Italian working in the
Montana Central tunnel near Wickes, was
killed a few days ago by a rock striking
him on the head.
Doc. Halliday, a sporting character and
frc-eater we'll known at Butte, passed in
his checks at Glenwood Springs, Colorado,
on Tuesday Of last week.
Mrs. Sarah J. Merrill, OF Parsons, Kan.
sas, writes for information in regard to her
son, Samuel w. Merrill, who left Kansas
in 1873 and came to Montana.
Register Monroe. of the Bozcman Land
Office, recommends that the Fort Ellis mil
itary reservation. $1,000 acres, be disposed
of under the public land laws.
The Meagher County Fair Association
will be added to the Montana circuit next
year. The Beav erhcad County Fair Asso-
citation may also be added to the list.
At Boze,nan the phy sicians report about
zoo cases of measles, confined to children
and of a light type. AS yet no deaths
| have occurred directly from the epidemic.
! Moore, the ex.agent OF the Northern Pa.
man for attempting to abscond with the
company's funds. He plead guilty but has
not been sentenced vet.
Tie Secretary Of the Pioneers Society
Of Montana has beer informed by Mrs.
! Meaghc:, widow OF General Thos. Francis
! Meagher, that she will forward the por.
| trait OF her dead husband to the society at
an early day.
The .Ni/isonia0 says that ground sluic.
ing has ended for the season in old Alder
Gulch. More bed stone has been uncov-
cred than in any season for many years
past, and the yield Of gold dust has been
correspondingly large.
At Helena, Belle Davis, we'll known
Bridge street cyprian, attempted suicide by
taking morphine. She was discovered be-
fore the deadly drug had done its work,
and by the prompt application Of vigorous
antidotc treatment her life was saved.
The Hart murder tria! is going on in the
District Court u, Helena. The case was
taken to Helena from Jefferson county on
Il change of venue. In getting a jury, one
of the Helena Aldermen sworc that he
was not citizen Of the United States.
Phi!ipsburg enjoyed novelty in the way
OF a party recently. 1t was called an
"avoirdupcis' social. The gentlemen drew
for their partners at supper, and then each
paid ior ais supper in proportion to the
amount---in pcunds--ot tair icminitv which,
had fallen to his lot.
On Monday night, about quarter to y
o'clock, Mrs. J. r. Shinnics, who had been
visiting her parents at WalHcrvillc, took an
express wagon to return TO her home in
Butte. The express wagon upset on upper
Montana street, throwing Mrs. Shinnick
to the ground. Tic wagon was risltcd,
and Mrs. Si,;nuick was driven 10 ilcr i!onc
near tkc Catholic Church. She did not
complain ii TIC time of bcin, much hurt
but shortly after getting home She .rcw
worse. ane! passed quietly away At 4 Iit'lc
after II o'c'o2,s. -ouly two short hours from
the time ~hc vas hurt.